Salmon With Sorrel Sauce
- 4 tablespoons finely minced shallots
- 1 cup dry white wine, preferably chardonnay
- 13 cup dry vermouth
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 4 cups fresh sorrel, washed, stemmed and center veins removed
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 1 12-ounce center-cut salmon fillet, boneless
- In a saucepan over high heat combine shallots, wine and vermouth.
- Cook until mixture is almost evaporated.
- It should have a syrupy consistency.
- Add cream and bring mixture to a simmer.
- Cook, stirring frequently, for 30 minutes.
- Remove from heat and strain sauce through a fine sieve into a clean saucepan.
- Tear sorrel into thumb-size pieces and drop into sauce.
- Add lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste, and cook briefly, stirring.
- Remove from heat and keep warm.
- Cut salmon in half widthwise.
- Then halve each piece, leaving four portions.
- Pound each piece lightly with the back of saucepan to make surface even.
- Season salmon on skin side with salt and pepper.
- Cook fillets in a nonstick pan over medium-high heat for 30 seconds.
- Flip and cook another 30 seconds.
- Distribute sorrel sauce evenly over center of 4 warm serving plates.
- Place a salmon fillet over each, arranging some sorrel strands around them.
- Serve immediately.
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Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/10016 (may not work)